Academic Coordinator Report 2010-2011 Academic Year

Academic Coordinator Report
2010-2011 Academic Year
My role as the Academic Coordinator for the Museum of Art & Archaeology has
been and remains to vitally connect the Museum to the university by reaching out in
new and perhaps unexpected ways (see above), not just to those exclusively focused
on academics but relating to the entire life of the university. I have continued to
pursue that ambitious goal during the 2010-11 academic year through an active
agenda involving presentations, programming, and products:
Presentations
My presentations for the Museum this
academic year have included:
Programs
My Programming activities for the
Museum this year have included:
Products
My Products for the Museum this year
have included:
‣ A lecture to Dr. Norman Land’s
Introduction to Museum class
(Sept.1, 2010) about the value of the
Museum as a resource for higherlevel
thinking skills;
‣ A Museum tour of Museum artwork
dealing with food issues for Dr.
‣ Exploring opportunities with
Dr. Amy Lannin of the Campus
Writing Center;
‣ Arranging a meeting (June 10,
2011)with Mizzou Advantage
grant recipients to
incorporate Museum artifacts
‣ Collaborating with university
colleagues across the campus on
several Mizzou Advantage
proposals such as a student arts
organization, a virtual humanities
laboratory, and the Pride of Place
campus heritage network;

LuAnne Roth’s Foodways class
(Sept.9, 2010), including a special
guest appearance by Columbia Daily
Tribune Food editor Marcia
Vanderlip’
‣ A Bingham Docent tour (Sept.13,
2010) to Arrow Rock, Missouri in
conjunction with the Museum’s
exhibition of Bingham portraits;
‣ A presentation and discussion with
members of the Columbia Senior
Network (Oct. 20, 2010)about the
Museum’s Healing Art program for
Alzheimer’s and dementia patients;
‣ A November Seminar tour (Nov.1,
2010) for the Interdisciplinary Center
on Aging’s special guest speakers;
into a Contemplative Studies
program;
‣ Working with Dr. Michelle
Froese to help design an MU
Student Unions Public Art
internship position (now
filled);
‣ Serving on the Art-i-Fact
steering committee involving
members of University
museums and special
collections;
‣ Helping Dr. LuAnne Roth to
design and implement the
Mizzou Advantage Food and
Society series (lectures, films,
special events, tours) which
the Museum co-sponsored;
‣ Coordinating the Pride of
Place Campus Heritage
Network in a series of
meetings:
‣ Working with College of Arts &
Science webmaster Tammy
McNeil to redesign the Museum’s
website in order to better
communicate our vision and
enhance the Museum visitor
experience (in progress);
‣ Collaborating with graduate
research assistant Kim Nochi to
create an Art of Food virtual
Museum tour on our Musings blog
as well as a very well-received Ellis
Library exhibit about the Food and
Society Mizzou Advantage
program involving the Museum;
‣ A tour for the Architectural Studies
Design seminar (Feb.10) in
conjunction with their course project
involving museum redesign;
‣ A Mizzou 101 Mizzou Traditions
Honors course seminar discussion
about the Pride of Place campus
heritage network and the
importance of place and heritage in
an increasingly digitized society and
culture;
‣ Represented the Museum at a
Mizzou Advantage poster session
(April 27, 2011)presenting highlights
‣ Representing the Museum in
planning the annual Campus
Gallery Crawl (Sept.23, 2010)
‣ Participating in a planning
workshop under the auspices
of MU Extension to develop a
prototype Community Arts
program to promote
community economic
renewal;
‣ Coordinating a new Healing
Arts network involving faculty
and community leaders
interested in the therapeutic
role of the arts;
‣ Developing a Homecoming audio
tour involving the use of personal
cellphones so that campus visitors
can call and hear brief narratives
about monuments and markers as
they walk across the MU campus;
‣ Developing the ARCHST 4630
online course about design arts
with the Center for Distance and
Independent Studies (CDIS) in
order to extend the reach of the
Museum through online
education;
‣ Published a new anthology
entitled Coming Home Again
(book) that examines the arc of
American cultural history through
the art and archaeology of our
own Missouri heritage, treating
Missouri as a living museum in
order to create even wider
Museum connections

and learning outcomes of the Food
and Society series which the
Museum helped facilitate;
‣ Made an Excellence in Teaching
presentation on the Pride of Place
campus heritage network (May 18,
2011) in which the Academic
Coordinator plays an active
leadership role
‣ Presented a luncheon seminar on
heritage tourism and led a campus
tour as part of the Churchhill
Museum Teacher Seminar
(Thursday, June 23, 2011)
‣ Performed a dramatic reading of The
Shield of Achilles to the Columbia Art
League student arts workshop class
(August 12, 2011)
‣ Helping organize the Pride of
Place: Campus Heritage
conference (May 2, 2011)
here at Mizzou for the Society
for Collegiate and University
Planning, a regional
conference attended by forty
campus planners and leaders;
‣ Organizing the Mythic
Museum tour (May 4,
2011)for Ridgeway
Elementary School’s Boy’s
Writing Club, featuring a
special reading by MU
basketball star Kim English
‣ Helping Museum Associates
organize the Museum’s first
Slow Art Day event (May 5,
2011).